ARRIVAL OF STEPHENS IN PARIS.

Timaru Herald, Volume IV, Issue 96, 16 March 1866, Page 5

ARRIVAL OF STEPHENS IN PARIS.

The Morning Post of December 2 contains the following announcement : — j " Stephens, the escaped Fenian, is now m Paris." The Paris correspondent of the Morning Her- \ aid, refers to the rumoured arrival of Stephens,.

which had been announced previously by the correspondent of the London Express. The former writer says it wtJ rumoured all over Paris on Thursday morning that Stephens had arrived there, and an English visitor, who dropped m at the Bourse m the afternoon, was regularly mobbed, some ill-natured mystificator having given out that he was the celebrated "Head-Centre." "All l can say is," adds the correspondent, " that if he has arrived here, he keeps very quiet, as he must well know that, m the event of his conspiring or engaging m Fenianism here, it would lead to his being despatched out of the country." Additional confirmation of Stephens' s escape is afforded by the following letter, which the Irishman of Saturday last publishes, simply aa an item of news, without identifying itself withits contents : — Paris, 27th November, 1865. "Mr. Editor — I take the liberty of writing you these few lines to inform you that your brave countryman, Stephens, who escaped so happily from Dublin prison, ha 3 arrived safe and sound m Paris ! He is even to be seen, during the hist two days, surrounded by numerous Wends, dining m one of the great restaurants of the Boulevard des Italiens. " 'Tis needless to tell yon, Mr. Editor, how all the world was delighted on hearing that Mr. Stephens had escaped from the hands of those traitorous English, always eager for the noble blood of Irishmen. "We are all covinced here that the day is not far distant when Ireland shall break for ever the Saxon chains which keep her bound so long, and will resuscitate, as they say, and as we all hope, m France, ' Great, glorious, and free.' — I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servant,' "J. De Longueville, ' ' A thorough admirer of the Irish Nation. "Eueßoyale, St. Honore."